Lightweight Crew

Lightweight Crew Will Open Fall Season With Head of the Housatonic

Oct 08, 2009

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - On Saturday, Oct. 10 the
Yale men’s lightweight crew team will begin its fall season
with the 15th installment of the Head of the Housatonic
regatta. The race will be held in Derby, Conn. and will be the
first to include the class of 2012 as part of the varsity crew. The
race will also be the first since the lightweight varsity eight
took the silver at the IRA National Regatta last June.

At last year’s event, the Y150 took
first place in two events and second in another two. The team won
the men’s open pair and the collegiate men’s four,
while taking second place in the varsity eight and the freshman
eight races.

This weekend’s regatta will be a tune-up
for next weekend’s Head of the Charles, which will take place
on the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. At last year’s
event, the men’s lightweight four took first place and the
varsity eight took eighth place. The men’s four event was won
by over 30 seconds, and represented the first time in 20 years that
the event was won by a college, as opposed to a rowing club. The
Head of the Charles includes crews from each of the EARC
universities, so it will be a good first test for the Bulldogs
against their usual set of rivals.

The following weekend, on Oct. 25, the Elis
will participate in the Princeton Three-Mile Chase. At last
year’s event, the Bulldogs won both the men’s varsity
eight and the men’s open pair, while taking third place in
the men’s lightweight four and the freshman eight races.